From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750726AbWFEUvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 16:51:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750742AbWFEUvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 16:51:32 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.227]:40008 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbWFEUvb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 16:51:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JNIlE1D42ua+JamAcGGFVTUrPFhTmKCgo/RI676UsAWasoT2d4dvfb9CUnN0lcleENqXWfEK0aeqM0qKj69o+DLe0U7kBidKnLnRL0bqI6N3UrG6w5xKvNQgyBdvwKE3h9sE34cAEARenyMoguu+5pQdV8jkKP83BOtIPpQ7IZs= Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30606051351i5533b04vcbe9fe500201c3bb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:51:29 +0200 From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" To: "Horst von Brand" Subject: Re: Linux kernel development Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Kalin KOZHUHAROV" , "Jesper Juhl" , "Greg KH" In-Reply-To: <200606051738.k55HcrC2025442@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4d8e3fd30606050439j7e299655hf9967678e8739698@mail.gmail.com> <200606051738.k55HcrC2025442@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/5/06, Horst von Brand wrote: > Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > On 6/5/06, Horst von Brand wrote: > > [...] > > > > Could you add a README (including contact info, etc), and perhaps a TODO > > > (and a copy of SubmittingPatches, which I assume applies here too?) to the > > > project? A license for the text is required, AFAIU (GPLv2, or one of the > > > Creative Commons licenses perhaps?). > > > > Not and exepert in this area, I think I'll release it under GPL2. > > Did you write all (most) of it? If not, you'd have to ask the original > author(s). > > BTW, thinking it over in the shower today, if/when this is translated into > asciidoc(1) (or whatever), a "source code" license (like GPLv2) would be > appropiate IMHO. Besides, using the same license as what it describes is > sensible. > > > What's the normal approach? Can I just add: > > # This document is distribuited under > > # GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE > > # Version 2, June 1991 > > # http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt > > > > To the text? > > The license text spells it out ;-) > > I would add language to that effect to the README file, and bundle the > standard COPYING file with the package Modified and pushed out, since part of the document is from inkernel documentation I choose GPL v2. Thanks! -- Paolo http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com